About the Faculty

Eckart Frahm
Professor of Assyriology
Office: SML 319
eckart.frahm@yale.edu
Phone: (203-)432-5584

Mail Address:
Babylonian Collection
Yale University Library
130 Wall Street
Box 208240
New Haven, CT 06520

Eckart Frahm (PhD Goettingen 1996, Habilitation Heidelberg 2007) was appointed Assistant Professor of Assyriology at Yale in 2002 and Professor in 2008. His main research interests are Assyrian and Babylonian history and Mesopotamian scholarly texts of the first millennium B.C.E. His undergraduate courses at Yale include topics in Mesopotamian history, religion, and literature, and the Bible in its ancient Near Eastern setting.

Frahm is the author of a book about the Assyrian king Sennacherib (Vienna 1997), and another on historical and historical-literary texts from Assur, published in the series “Wissenschaftliche Veroeffentlichungen der Deutschen Orient-Gesellschaft” (Wiesbaden 2009). A volume of hand copies of two hundred Late Babylonian letters from ancient Uruk that Frahm co-authored with Michael Jursa is currently in press (Yale). In addition, Frahm recently completed a monograph to appear in 2010 on Babylonian and Assyrian scholarly commentaries and the origins of ancient hermeneutics. Frahm is the author of numerous articles, encyclopedia entries, and book reviews on subjects including Sumerian royal inscriptions, cuneiform grammatology, the ancient reception of the Gilgamesh epic and the Babylonian epic of creation, Mesopotamian prophecy, Babylonian prisons, and the history of modern scholarship on the ancient Near East.

Before coming to Yale, Frahm was a research assistant for a project under the direction of Stefan Maul devoted to the reconstruction and publication of the cuneiform texts from the Assyrian capital of Assur (Iraq), and Assistant Professor of Assyriology at Heidelberg. He served in 2001 as epigrapher in the German excavations at Assur and has worked extensively in the collections of the British Museum in London and the Vorderasiatisches Museum in Berlin. In 2004, Frahm served as an instructor in a USAID sponsored summer course for Iraqi archaeologists and assyriologists held at the American Center for Oriental Research in Amman (Jordan).

Frahm is co-founder and editor, together with Michael Jursa, of the series Guides to the Mesopotamian Textual Record (Muenster: Ugarit Verlag), and subject editor for Assyriology of the series Culture and History of the Ancient Near East (Leiden/Boston: Brill). He serves as an external editorial advisor for the project “The Geography of Knowledge in Assyria and Babylonia” directed by Eleanor Robson (Cambridge University), and as a member of the advisory board of the Zeitschrift fuer Orient-Archaeologie (Berlin: De Gruyter). In 2007, he was elected Corresponding Member of the German Archaeological Institute.

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